Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021 gives two fingers to adversity with a striking line-up
Ranging from opera to a skatepark installation, the programme marks an extraordinary balancing act
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
Venice Architecture Biennale’s Irish Pavilion explores our role in the data revolution
Entanglement by Annex reflects Ireland’s long-standing, complicated role in global tech ecosystem
Shooting soldiers in a handball alley: Amelia Stein’s The Bloods
Defence Forces personnel appear in all their guises in the photographer’s powerful portraits
‘Are we going to let them burn us at the stake again?’ Jesse Jones’s bewitching art
Jones’s idea for Ireland’s entry into the Venice Biennale was to create a fictional lost past where women held power
The inventive and industrious Sean Lynch is a good fit for Venice Biennale
Among this year’s essential exhibitions is Lynch’s Biennale show, which will tour Ireland after Italy
Politics and puppets: Limerick’s reign as culture king
After an unenviable start, Limerick rallied its foot soldiers to its City of Culture cause. Has it delivered on its promises?
Ben Frost puts his music on trial
His post-industrial, dark new album was inspired by a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sizing it up: when it comes to art, bigger isn’t always better
Large-scale art, a global trend that Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’ can take some blame for, often doesn’t work, but sometimes, as with Dublin’s Spire, the gamble pays off
Killing machines: beautiful images of ugly objects
Raphaël Dallaporta’s photographs of landmines and images taken by a drone flying over Afghanistan seduce, provoke, attack and worry the viewer
Art of darkness
Richard Mosse’s dispatches from Congo, in ‘The Enclave’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy, dispense with familiar styles of war-zone reportage to show life in the raw
Karl Wallace: ‘A very delicate balance’
The artistic director whose resignation sparked the Limerick City of Culture controversy explains his reasons for leaving the troubled festival
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